A 17-year-old cousin of Faheem Williams, the Newark boy whose body was found in a plastic bin in the locked basement of an aunt's house, was indicted Thursday on manslaughter charges in the case, which put a national spotlight on the state's troubled...

The Essex County executive asked a special investigator today to determine how the teenage suspect in the death of a 7-year-old boy, whose killing led to sweeping changes in the state's child welfare system, was mistakenly released from jail. The...

In the biggest shake-up of New Jersey's child welfare agency since the death of a 7-year-old Newark boy in January, the special assistant assigned by the governor to reform the office has dismissed 10 of its highest-ranking administrators and...

Church and community leaders and relatives of Faheem Williams, the 7-year-old boy whose body was found in a locked basement here in January, said today that they were forming a coalition to help prevent child abuse. The group made the announcement...

A teenager charged with assaulting a 7-year-old boy whose body was found in a basement here pleaded not guilty today and was ordered held in $100,000 bail. The teenager, Wesley Murphy, who entered the plea in State Superior Court, is charged with...

Christian Harp was only 8 days old when he came to the attention of New Jersey's child welfare agency. Caseworkers at the Division of Youth and Family Services received a complaint that Christian's mother had not received prenatal care and had given...

The two brothers who were rescued from the same locked basement where a twin of one of the boys was found dead have been released from a hospital and placed in a foster home, officials said today. The brothers, Raheem Williams, 7, and Tyrone Hill,...

The teenager charged with assault in the death of Faheem Williams, the 7-year-old boy whose body was found in a locked basement here, was ordered today to face trial in an adult court. The teenager, Wesley A. Thomas, 17, also known as Wesley...

The mother of Faheem Williams, the 7-year-old boy whose remains were discovered in the cellar of a relative's home here last month, was arrested today on charges that she violated the terms of her probation in an earlier child-endangerment case. ...

If ever there was a moment for New Jersey to have tackled the problems of its long-troubled child welfare agency, February 1998 seemed to be it. The public had been outraged by reports that the agency had failed to respond to calls to its child...